Ashton
Ashton is a boy's name that peaked in 2004, when it was the 76th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 197th. About 106,000 Ashtons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ashton boys named Ashton
Girls and boys called Ashton
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Ashton crossed from girls to boys in 1998, having already crossed in 1986, and has stayed there for 28 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 96% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 61 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 107,927
- Estimated living today
- 106,000
- Median age today
- 17
- Peak year
- 2004
- Best rank
- 76th
- Rank in 2025
- 197th
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 19,660 / 88,267
How old the living Ashtons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 107,927 babies given the name since 1881, about 106,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 54,000 of them are children and 220 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
From Old English æsc (“ash (tree species)”) + tūn (“enclosure, settlement”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Ashtons
- Ashton Kutcher (born 1978)American actor
- Ashton Eaton (born 1988)American decathlete
- Ashton Sanders (born 1995)American actor
- Ashton Holmes (born 1978)American actor
- Ashton Irwin (born 1994)Australian drummer
- Ashton Lambie (born 1990)American cyclist
- Ashton Dearholt (1894–1942)actor
- Ashton Agar (born 1993)Australian cricketer
People named Ashton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ashton is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ashton is most concentrated in Utah (2.5×), Louisiana (2.0×), Nevada (2.0×), Georgia (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2004
The most popular boys’ names the year Ashton peaked:
Ashton elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Ashton | 10,018 | 69th |
| New Zealand boys | Ashton | 1,403 | 41st |
| Scotland boys | Ashton | 689 | 109th |
| England and Wales girls | Ashton | 339 | 607th |
| France boys | Ashton | 270 | 1,308th |
| Ireland boys | Ashton | 262 | 221st |
| Northern Ireland boys | Ashton | 252 | 89th |
| Scotland girls | Ashton | 80 | 252nd |
| France girls | Ashton | 30 | 6,850th |
| Belgium boys | Ashton | 25 | 1,132nd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Ashton | 12 | 271st |
| Ireland girls | Ashton | 9 | 488th |
| Poland boys | Ashton | 2 birth registrations | 663rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ashton: rank by region
In 2010, Ashton was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Ashton | 519 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Ashton among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Ashton | 13 | 23 |
| Finland girls | Ashton | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Ashton against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.